Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’

Anais Nin

Dreams are essential to life.

Anais Nin

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

Anais Nin

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

Anais Nin

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

Anais Nin

I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.

Anais Nin

I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

Anais Nin

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

Amanda Holden

If I had a dream show, I probably shouldn't even mention it in this climate, but it would be like a kind of Fix It show.

Amanda Holden

My dream is to have a gay son.

Amanda Holden

Follow your dreams, because your dreams won't follow you...

Alvin Toffler

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

Anne F. Beiler

It's good to have plans and dreams, but don't be surprised if God brings you somewhere else.

Anne Enright

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

Anne Enright

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Anne Carson

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

Anne Carson

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

Anne Hathaway

I had a dream. And it came true.

Anne Frank

It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair.

Anjelica Huston

What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We're all allowed to have our dreams.

Ann Aguirre

. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.

Anita Roddick

Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. An entrepreneur's dream is often a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. What differentiates the entrepreneur from the crazy person is that the former gets other people to believe in his vision.

Andrew Wiles

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Andrew Wyeth

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future-the timelessness of the rocks and the hills-all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape-the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

Andrew Wyeth

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

Andrew Young

I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.

Andrew Young

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away;

Andrew Young

Nobody black had learned anything from the Letter from the Birmingham Jail or from the I Have a Dream speech. That was a revelation of white people.

Andrew Weil

Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.

Chuck Palahniuk

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

Chuck Palahniuk

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Chuck Palahniuk

That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

Chuck Palahniuk

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.